Can a paragraph style in InDesign be highlighted in color?

Hey @dublove 

Your request is legit. I wish it would be already available. This feature has been asked in 2018 and hasn't been prioritized yet. 
https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/33490237-ability-to-add-color-labels-to-individual-styles-t

As an alternative to using colors, what I do is :

- Never use folders (little time saving, allow duplicate style names, cumbersome when using in conjunctions with scripts)

- Always use a common structure rule (preffixes, structure naming, suffixes etc.). 

- Extensive use of shortcuts and a mapping adjusted to your use (ie, on a Mac, Shift +Num for ParaStyles Titles, Alt + Num for other ParaStyles , Alt + Shift + Num for CharStyles etc.). On a Mac, with the 3 "Cmd / Shift /Alt" keys, you can map up to 70 shortcuts. After a while, using the same shortcuts just become natural and speed up your workflow.

- Use a stream deck (elagato 24 is perfect) to organize the use of less common styles

Just to give you some thinking 

Hi and sorry @dublove—this is funny!—I actually was very interested in your original post, to see whether it was possible to highlight different text styles becaues I believed that would be very useful to find cases where styles have gone astray or wrong styles are applied.

So I wrote a script to do and I've published it to my github repository.

When I was testing it, I used a copy of a real and complex document with many styles and even in my limited playing with it I found it somewhat revelatory—I thought my document was very clean but there were a few messy bits here and there. I will find this useful.

If anyone is interested, feel free to read more about it in my repo! Or you can download directly if you don't like reading. Let me know if it's useful to anyone.

- Mark

P.S. Sorry dublove I answered a different question. Was fun for me!

If this is about highlighting on the Paragraph Style panel then I don't think so it is possible. In fact not much can be done on the panel via scripting

-Manan

As mentioned paragraph border and shading may help you. With respect to scripting, there are properties to set these up. See

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#ParagraphStyle_2.html

-Manan

Underline, paragraph shadow and several other properties.